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Oral history transcript, Llewellyn B. Griffith, Sr., interview 1 (I), 8/15/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- I -- 3 own, so they tied it onto the coattail of WPA, you might say. Unfortunately, it was about that time [Franklin] Delano Roosevelt and [John Nance] Garner, who was a good friend of mine, didn't see eye to eye on everything. They had
  • As Engineer met LBJ, the NYA director; WPA started by Roosevelt, NYA started by Mrs. Roosevelt; NYA tagged onto WPA for financing through Congress; WPA located in San Antonio, NYA in Austin; LBJ as state of Texas administrator of the NYA; Griffith's
Oral history transcript, Alfred Melinger, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was of a New Deal philosophy. the New Deal. Naturally, I worked for And I credited the New Deal with being able to get me a job when, they were awfully hard to get. And Lyndon absolutely in my opinion. idolized Franklin Delano Roosevelt, quoted him
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • I had missed. During our visit in Washington, one of my friends--a former editor that I had worked for on the Oklahoma News--said, "Well, Franklin D. Roosevelt is going to have a press conference. Don't you want to come and hear it?" Of course, I
Oral history transcript, Robert H. Montgomery, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • ;JlJnity. from a quite discrete world) the most fantastic political leader of \merican history, one Franklin Delano Roosevelt, has become President of the United States. \'lith bewildering speed he began prescribing ne\
Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 2 (II), 7/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • remember Lyndon Johnson meeting Franklin Roosevelt? K: Yes, this I remember very distinctly. 11: \.Jhat happened? That was right after the election, wasn't it? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, Malcolm G. Bardwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • mentioned earlier about--this skips ahead to almost 1938 when Franklin Roosevelt first mentioned enlarging the Supreme Court--Mr. Maverick kind of leaped to the forefront on that. Could you tell me more about that, how that happened? B: The bulletin came
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 3 (III), 2/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Birdwell -­ III -­ 4 appointed [by Roosevelt], his appointment was certainly influenced by Mrs . Eleanor Roosevelt and the New Deal people . G: Let me ask you about
Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 1 (I), April 1963, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • at the hospital. G: Do you recall anything that happened that night of the election? K: Nothing particularly. G: To move on to the meeting with President Franklin Roosevelt after the election. All we know about that is that it was Governor James Allred who
Oral history transcript, Marie Lindau Olson, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • from the national office? Did you get many field workers here? O: We had some. We had some that came in, and they were always accorded what we could give them. Mrs. Roosevelt was there. G: Do you recall her visit? O: Very vividly. Awful to say. I
  • congressional campaign to replace James Buchanan and LBJ's support for President Franklin Roosevelt; LBJ's relationship with Willard "Bill" Deason and Jesse Kellam; what Olson gained from her experience working for LBJ; visits from LBJ after he became
Oral history transcript, Albert W. Brisbin, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of those banishment things like Bill Deason going to El Paso . G: Now, we were talking about LBJ and his political aspirations . Did you have a sense for his attitude towards Franklin Roosevelt? B: Of course, he had more insight into the political
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . That's the reason that I say that I think his success was due to many, many things . One of the big things was his personal magnetism and his personal inter­ views and his personal approach to people . F: He went down the line with Franklin Roosevelt
Oral history transcript, John J. Corson, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • recollection there was not. Franklin Roosevelt issued his first fair employment practice order later; in 1941, I believe. In the intervening years, 1935-40, it LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Crawford Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Ray Roberts, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the East Texas area, I think that gave me a closer contact. G: I understand that the Roosevelt Administration considered the Texas NYA program one of the best in the country, one of the two bes.t, I think. R: Not only that, but just recently I
Oral history transcript, Ray E. Lee, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • page editorial saying that the person selected from this District must be a supporter of President Roosevelt, and they described Buchanan as such a supporter. The nominee, said the editor, must support Roosevelt, which, for me, was a somewhat novel
Oral history transcript, Charles P. Little, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • him coming to Texas while Lyndon was state director. G: How about Eleanor Roosevelt's visit? L: Yes, Mrs. Roosevelt came though after Jesse Kellam became the state director. Do you remember that? I am sure her coming to Texas was probably helped
  • Biographical information; NYA; Alvin Wirtz; advisory boards; roadside parks; NYA projects; Sam Rayburn; Congress; Eleanor Roosevelt; FDR; WPA; regional and district organization; Lady Bird
Oral history transcript, Richard R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • would say that he was pretty much the first one that made a comprehensive park like the Roosevelt Park . G: Did he have any problem getting the state highway department in Texas to go along with this, do you recall?: B: Oh, yes, he had problems
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Roosevelt's boat at Galveston. H: I believe it was. G: Yes. I was up here at the time, of course. Then he rode the train, I think, to Fort Worth, and then flew up to Washington and spent that first evening with you. H'> That's right. he did. G: I
Oral history transcript, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/13/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was an economics professor who was on leave, I think, with the Roosevelt Administration. Anyway, he had a big house and it was leased to Mr. Johnson, and Willard Deason, who is now on the Interstate Commerce Commission, and I were roommates in one
Oral history transcript, Ray E. Lee, interview 2 (II), 2/8/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • day of the month. G: Aubrey Williams came down to Texas in 1936. L: 1 remember when he was here. G: Can you recall the details of this trip? L: No. Mrs. Roosevelt was down here about the same time. I remember that they sat half a dozen of us
  • Biographical information; NYA; publicity; personnel; visits from national office; Mrs. Roosevelt; project procedures; 1937 Congressional campaign.
Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • . We were for him very much because he was [the] director of NYA. We were very strong Roosevelt supporters and he was doing a great deal to support the LCRA, Rural Electrification and the dams here and the National Youth Association [Administration
Oral history transcript, NYA Interview, group interview 1 (I), 1968, by William S. White (Item)
  • about he and Tom Miller, our mayor then, getting involved in some kind of project for the youth. So I think he came to Texas in somewhat of a political climate, because this was in President Roosevelt's day and he, even then, had been selected as LBJ
Oral history transcript, Robert S. Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • was in on this. It was a bipartisan operation and It was after the 1936 landslide, the historY-;J;Ilaking history-making landslide in which Roosevelt carried everything but two states. The Pl~ority in in the theSenate. Senate.But But there Democrats had a monumental majority
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • strategy, of course, was to go all out for Roosevelt, and even to the endorsement of the so-called Supreme Court packing. Did he talk with you about what he was doing? D: Well, r sat in some meetings where that was discussed, yes. F: Was it generally
Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 2 (II), 10/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . When we got La Villita going, Aubrey Williams, Dave Williams and even Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt came to San Antonio to see that project. fact, they came down several times--not Mrs. Roosevelt, she only came the one time, but the rest came dovm several
  • Roosevelt not stopping to dedicate a roadside park; LBJ’s relationship with Lady Bird’s father; LBJ’s involvement with NYA after becoming a Congressman; La Villita in San Antonio; Maury Maverick; working for OPA; Roth’s involvement in the 1948 campaign; feud
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • read that; my recollection is that it was at San Marcos. G: Now in tenns of the campaign itself, one of the interesting things in itself was that he decides to be an all-out Roosevelt backer. How was that decision reached, do you know? I do not know
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 2 (II), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . But it was in trouble and I never knew whether it was through Rayburn or who it was, but the suggestion was made to the then-President Roosevelt that he'd better do something about it; "They're going to lose a lot of representation in the House, and you need them." So
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • , in regard to how the President's political phi1 osophy devel oped-·-\Ji rtz ~/as no particularly strong 1i bera 1 influence except on water power? WH: Yesion water power and other things. Wirtz embraced Roosevelt in theory. And then I might say
Oral history transcript, Thomas J. Dunlap, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • : Yes, I never did work for the President. work for NYA. I never did I came up here to Austin in the Legislature, and Mr. Bill Deason, who is also a very close friend of the President, was attorney for the Federal Land Bank in Houston. Roosevelt
Oral history transcript, Gordon Fulcher, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • Lyndon Johnson. That would have been in the 1930's, about 1935 or so, would it not? GF: That would be correct. He came to Austin as National Youth Administrator in the early part of the Roosevelt administration and that's when I first became
Oral history transcript, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • rebelled at Roosevelt's position on the court packing plan. I remember he voiced those objections, but he agreed with Lyndon that it would probably be a popular issue and that a do-or-die issue was essential. dramatize Lyndon, Somethin
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • It was principally important because he was the first person to campaign in support of Roosevelt's court plan, and Roosevelt therefore took a special interest in him. a rather close relationship. This was the beginning of And of course, Johnson was very much
Oral history transcript, Emma Guffy Miller, interview 1 (I), 2/12/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • House later in the Roosevelt Administration, but at that time we laughed at each other and said we'd combine our votes and maybe one of us could be nominated. Mc: How many votes did you get? M: Just the one, but he only got half a vote. I was ahead
Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in young Johnson going with the NYA? P: No, except maybe I was probably conferred with by people with the administration. I was close to Mr. Roosevelt at that time, you know, in fact all during the time he was in office. have discussed
Oral history transcript, Joseph H. Skiles, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • purpose was to, of course, help President Roosevelt and the Democratic Party. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler, interview 2 (II), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of these projects and see if you remember anything about any of them? Z: Okay. G: We've got the Houston library projects, mending books, the chapel in Denton. Z: Yes. I was up there for the dedication of it. Mrs. Roosevelt was [there]. G: Was LBJ
Oral history transcript, Arthur E. Goldschmidt and Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • a rather famous report on the South. * In fact, Roosevelt asked for it through the NEC--Lowell Mellett's outfit. yellow pamphlet on the back porch of ~ my We wrote this little home in Georgetown. * Report on Economic Conditions of the South, U.S. Govt
Oral history transcript, Robert L. Phinney, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • in the vision of the Congress . . . . . actually some of it even started b~~k in the Hoover administration, as you remember . . . . . but certainly the impetus that President Roosevelt gave these prograws really got them off the ground and provided actu al
Oral history transcript, Robert C. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . This, then, called us to the attention of many of the groups that were working in this field, including some that were close to Secretary Ickes, who had set up a racial advisory office under Clark Foreman--a white Georgian but had worked with the Roosevelt-F